[Leica] Re: Guidelines for getting your URLs through to us intact

[reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

If the www is there, it is just part of the name. Using www or not using www 
is a matter of personal taste. I dislike it and never use it, but I always 
enable it as an alternative. For example, even though I always advertise the 
LUG photo contest as contest.leica-users.org, I have defined an alias 
www.contest.leica-users.org for those who feel a need to type the www.

The http:// is, technically, the access protocol. If you enter into your 
browser a name without the http:// in front, it will immediately prefix that 
onto the name string before trying to open the page. The function that it 
serves here on the LUG is that most mail readers won't spot and highlight a 
URL that does not begin with an access method. So

        contest.leica.users.org         is not clickable in most mailers
        http://contest.leica-users.org  is clickable in most mailers

So the function served here by the "http://"; is "Hey! Mail reading program! 
Yes, you! This is a URL. Make it clickable." AOL doesn't do this, but pretty 
much all other mail readers do.


>  I don't understand, though, the need (or not) for the  http:// or the 
> www. Sometimes there are both. sometimes just one.  Sometimes none. what 
> is the best way to send any URL, just copy it  from the address line of 
> the browser? Jesse